Editorial Board

Dieter Bimberg
Affiliation: Technische Universität Berlin
Location: Berlin, Germany

Professor Dieter Bimberg received the Diploma in physics and the Ph.D. degree magna cum laude from Goethe University, Frankfurt, in 1968 and 1971, respectively. From 1972 to 1979 he held a Principal Scientist position at the Max Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Grenoble/France and Stuttgart. In 1979 he was appointed as Professor of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Aachen. Since 1981 he holds the Chair of Applied Solid State Physics at Technical University of Berlin. Since 1990 he is Executive Director of the Solid State Physics Institute at TU Berlin. Since 2004 he is director of the Center of Nanophotonics at TU Berlin. In 2006 he was elected as chairman of the German Government National Centers of Excellence of Nanotechnologies.
His honors include the Russian State Prize in Science and Technology 2001, the Max-Born-Award and Medal 2006, awarded jointly by IoP and DPG. In 2004 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and as Fellow of the American Physical Society.
He has authored more than 900 papers, patents, and books resulting in more than 22000 citations worldwide and a Hirsch-factor of 67. Several successful start-ups were initiated by him based on the research and development pursued of his group.
His present research interests range from the physics of nanostructures and photonic devices, to the development of novel nanophotonic devices like quantum dot lasers and amplifiers, single photon emitters, wide gap semiconductor single photon emitters and ultrahigh speed photonic devices for future 100 G Ethernet and the Terabus.
Prof. Bimberg has been very active within IEEE, serving as member of the program committee of numerous conferences since 1996, and as guest editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Henry Kapteyn
Affiliation: University of Colorado
Location: Boulder, Colorado USA

Dr. Henry C. Kapteyn has been a Professor at the Department of Physics and a Fellow of JILA, at the University of Colorado since 1999. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at the University of Michigan, and an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Physics at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, in the field of x-ray and short-wavelength laser physics. His work at WSU, done in collaboration with Prof. Margaret Murnane, resulted in the development of a new generation of lasers which make it straightforward to produce light pulse of less than ten femtoseconds duration. At Michigan, he continued this research in demonstrating novel techniques for generation short-duration light pulses in the deep-ultraviolet and soft x-ray regions of the spectrum.This work opens a new region of the electromagnetic spectrum to fundamental studies using coherent ultrashort light pulses. He is currently applying this technology to studies of dynamic processes in atomic, molecular, and materials systems, as well as for technological applications such as nanoscale-resolution imaging. This work has resulted in a number of advances in fundmental science, including the first demonstration of coherent manipulation of atoms on the attosecond time scales, and the first studies of "radiation femtochemistry" where the dynamics of a molecular exposed to ionizing radiation were for the first time followed in real-time. Prof. Kapteyn has received a number of awards including the National Science Foundation Young Investigator award in 1992, the Optical Society of America's Adolph Lomb Medal in 1993, and as co-recipient with Prof. Margaret Murnane of the 2009 Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology of the American Chemical Society. Prof. Kapteyn is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Zakya Kafafi
Affiliation: National Science Foundation
Location: Arlington, Virginia

Dr. Zakya H. Kafafi joined the National Science Foundation as the Director of the Division of Materials Research in October 2007.
Dr. Kafafi has dedicated 21 years of her career serving the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in many different capacities, as a research chemist, a senior group leader and head of the Organic Optoelectronics Section in the Optical Sciences Division. Her research was motivated by newly emerging technologies based on organic electronics and photonics. She pioneered new areas which spanned a wide spectrum of disciplines. The chemistry and physics of self-assembled and organic nanostructures, organic light-emitting materials and devices, organic photovoltaics and, energy and charge transfer processes in condensed phase, represent some of the topics that received attention in Kafafi's group. Special emphasis was also given to the study of the surface and interface properties of nanostructures, molecular and polymeric materials using techniques such as photoemission spectroscopy and scanning probe microscopy.
Her responsibilities at NRL as Section Head included addressing national goals and priorities, which she succeeded in meeting by forming an integrated and talented research team of government personnel and postdoctoral fellows. She played a key role in developing a multidisciplinary research program on nonlinear optical (NLO) materials, emphasizing highly conjugated organic compounds and polymers, fullerenes and metallic nanostructures. This research effort addressed important national priorities such as her investigations of NLO materials for optical limiting. She then decided to diversify her research and seized the opportunity to jump into emerging technologies in organic optoelectronics and nanoscience where she launched many new research initiatives. Among the most notable ones is her large NRL consortium, an accelerated research initiative on "Organic Light-Emitting Materials & Devices" where she played a key role in developing the science foundation for the realization of stable, color tunable and highly efficient ‘state-of-the-art’ organic light-emitting diodes. Following this program she initiated two multidisciplinary nanoscience efforts: one involved with the development of efficient nanostructured organic photovoltaics and another addressing the scientific challenges related to light-emission from an electrically stimulated single quantum dot. Under her direction, Dr. Kafafi’s Section became a leading center of research in organic optoelectronics. Realizing that energy is one of the most important challenges of the 21st century, she developed another accelerated research initiative where she directed a multi-disciplinary, multidivisional research consortium on Flexible Organic Solar Cells.
During her years of service at NRL, Dr. Kafafi received outstanding performance awards for her organizational skills in mobilizing personnel and resources to attain the given research objectives, and promoting cultural diversity. She paid particular attention to mentoring employees and developing their skills by providing technical support, educational opportunities, and career guidance. In addition, she is one of the founders of the NRL women in Science and Engineering (WISE) network. This group has sponsored many important activities at NRL that is beneficial to the workforce. Among these activities, Dr. Kafafi launched a lab-wide mentor program pilot project to promote and develop the careers of female and male scientists, and create an environment where work at NRL is a productive and rewarding experience for all. After one year of successfully completing the pilot project, the director of research at NRL established a mentor program for all the employees at all sites. In recognition of her hard work and tireless efforts in this project, Dr. Kafafi received the NRL Commanding Officer's Award for Achievements in the Field of Equal Employment Opportunity for the creation of a mentor program for scientists and engineers. More recently she was involved in a study on the Quality of Life issues that significantly affected the NRL workforce's job satisfaction, thus impacting both retention and recruitment. She wrote a comprehensive report with many recommendations for improving the quality of life at NRL, and presented it to management.
Dr. Kafafi is a member of many scientific societies such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Chemical Society (ACS), the Materials Research Society (MRS), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and the Optical Society of America (OSA) to list a few. She has been actively involved in planning and organizing many symposia and conferences, and served these societies in many different capacities. In 2005, Dr. Kafafi was elected a fellow of SPIE for her .outstanding contributions to the field of organic photonics and electronics covering many aspects of chemistry, physics and materials science. In 2007, Dr. Kafafi was recognized for serving with distinction in the advancement of optics and, for her pioneering work in organic optoelectronic materials and devices, and was elected a Fellow of OSA. In 2008, she was honored at the AAAS annual meeting for her contributions to science and technology, and recognized as a newly elected AAAS fellow for her achievements in materials science and chemistry.
Dr. Kafafi received both her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Michal Lipson
Affiliation: Cornell University
Location: Ithaca, New York USA

Michal Lipson completed her B.S., MS and Ph.D. degrees in physics at the Technion Israel in 1998. In Dec 1998 she joined the Department of Material Science and Engineering at MIT as a postdoctoral associate. She then joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University in 2001 as an Assistant Professor. Her research at Cornell involves novel on-chip Nanophotonic devices. She was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2004, is the inventor of 8 patents on novel micron-size photonic structures for light manipulation and is the author of over 100 papers in the major research journals in physics and optics. She is also a fellow of the Optical Society of Americas.

Susumu Noda
Affiliation: Kyoto University
Location: Kyoto, Japan

Prof. Noda received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1982, 1984, and 1991, respectively, all in electronics. From 1984 to 1988, he was with the Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, where I studied semiconductor lasers called distributed feedback (DFB) lasers with one dimensional (1D) periodic refractive index distribution, and also crystal growth technology (molecular beam epitaxy).
In 1988, Prof. Noda joined Kyoto University as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2000. I am currently serving also as a leader of Kyoto University Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) program on "Photonics and Electronics Science and Engineering." After joining Kyoto University in 1988, he extended my research areas to more general photonics and optoelectronics including ultrafast nonlinear optical phenomena and optoelectronic materials and devices. In particular, in the early 1990s, he started research on photonic crystals with 2D and 3D periodic refractive distribution by extending his previous work on DFB lasers with 1D periodic refractive index distribution.
Prof. Noda has received several awards awards, including the OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize (2006), an honorary degree from Gent University, Gent, Belgium (2006), IEEE Distinguished Lecturer awards (2005), IEEE Fellow awards (2007), the Japan Society of Applied Physics Achievement Award on Quantum Electronics (2005), and the IBM Science Award (2000)

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Role of Editorial Board - Advisory Board (AB)
The Advisory Board provides guidance to the Editor-in-Chief on issues regarding the scope and direction of the journal; helps to identify new opportunities in emerging photonic areas; networks within her/his own community to bring awareness of the journal; and nominates AEs. The AB also serves in the role of Appeal Board in problematic review cases. The AB members will be encouraged to contribute with a short editorial article on a special section of the journal dedicated to highlighting breakthroughs in photonics describing significant developments in their discipline during a year. The term of service the AB member is 3 years with the option to be reappointed for an additional 3 year term.